Our Mission

The Center for Social Concerns of the University of Notre Dame facilitates community-based learning, research, and service informed by Catholic Social Tradition. Through the Center, learning becomes service to justice.

Our Vision

The Mission of the Center for Social Concerns fully realized. View an illustration
of our vision.

STUDENTS
All students demonstrate a “disciplined sensibility to poverty and injustice” through social
concerns courses integrated in all colleges.
Students participate extensively in program development, drawing on comprehensive
leadership training for service and social action.
Students strategize regularly with partners at other colleges and universities.

COMMUNITY PARTNERS
Responses to the voices of persons in need lead to collaborative strategies
for social change.
Community concerns foster and inform strategic initiatives and
action research.

FACULTY
Joint appointments
with each of the Colleges and First Year of Studies are central to teaching
and research of faculty.
Strategic research efforts linked to student and community initiatives are
common and fruitful.

NOTRE DAME PARTNERS
The commitment to service and justice
by Notre Dame attracts an abundance of students, faculty, and staff seeking
the challenge of experiential and
service learning.
The Center’s mission is lived out through University appointments, funding,
course offerings, residence life, and
contributions to Notre Dame’s
Catholic identity and
mission.

ALUMNI/ALUMNAE
Collaborations among alumni and alumnae, students, and local
agencies foster continuing learning about complex social realities. Graduates
recognize injustice,
integrate Catholic social teachings, and work for positive social change
and justice.

GLOBAL PARTNERS
Community partners provide service-learning opportunities on
every continent. Links of solidarity foster understanding of international poverty
and injustice
and inspire the life and hope of community that transcend
borders.

...the University seeks to cultivate in its students not only an appreciation
for the great achievements of human beings but also a disciplined sensibility
to the poverty, injustice and oppression that burden the lives of so many.
The aim is to create a sense of human solidarity and concern for the common
good that will bear fruit as learning becomes service to justice. —University
of Notre Dame Mission Statement

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